html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/2972#issuecomment-496052425,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2972,496052425,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ5NjA1MjQyNQ==,1217238,2019-05-27T01:52:29Z,2019-05-27T01:52:29Z,MEMBER,"Yes, I do think this deviation from pandas would make sense -- though it would be even better if we could convince pandas to make the same change! We already have low-level tools for controlling how alignment works (construct the index yourself and use `.reindex`), but we should make the default behavior as user friendly as possible.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,445745470 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/2972#issuecomment-494078236,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2972,494078236,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ5NDA3ODIzNg==,2448579,2019-05-20T17:24:55Z,2019-05-20T17:24:55Z,MEMBER,"From a user perspective, I think it's plain weird to merge a bunch of datasets with montonically decreasing coordinates and land up with a new dataset that has monotonically increasing coordinates.","{""total_count"": 1, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,445745470 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/2972#issuecomment-493782708,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/2972,493782708,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ5Mzc4MjcwOA==,1217238,2019-05-19T19:04:42Z,2019-05-19T19:04:42Z,MEMBER,"I'm not entirely sure this is a good idea -- a discrepancy in the behavior of an outer join between pandas seems non-ideal. Perhaps somebody else has opinions about whether this would be worthwhile? If we do want to do this, let's put the change inside the `_get_joiner` function. Specifically, instead of ```python def _get_joiner(join): if join == 'outer': return functools.partial(functools.reduce, operator.or_) ``` you could write something like: ```python def _outer_join(indexes): index = functools.reduce(indexes, operator.or_) # your logic for reverse sorting the result return index def _get_joiner(join): if join == 'outer': return _outer_join ``` Note that `operator.or_` on a pandas.Index is the same thing as `pandas.Index.union`, so this could be equivalently written (maybe more clearly) as: ```python def _outer_join(indexes): index = indexes[0] for other in indexes[1:] index = index.union(other) # your logic for reverse sorting the result return index ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,445745470